The majority of England’s market towns are as old as Domesday and Princes Risborough is no exception. Indeed, the recorded ownership of the land by Earl Harold, the last Saxon King who died at Hastings in 1066 would indicate that there was a settlement of some sort even earlier.
During the reign of Henry VIII the town was granted the right to hold weekly markets, two annual fairs (in April and September) plus two other fairs in May and October.
Market day is Thursday with a Farmers Market every third Thursday of the month
A Women’s Institute market also operates on the same day from March to December.